Thursday, November 14, 2013

Beast Tech: Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)... and the Religious People that will Promote the Mark

Most
readers are undoubtedly
familiar with the
development of
radio-frequency
identification (rfid)
technology that, under
certain applications, is
forecast to be connected
to future
human-enhancement
technologies, especially
neurosciences,
brain-machine
interfacing, and
cybernetics.

This
rfid
tech employs tiny
integrated circuits for
storing and processing
information using an
antenna for receiving
and transmitting the
related data. This
technology is most
commonly applied as a
“tag” for tracking
inventory with radio
waves at companies like
Walmart, where consumer
goods are embedded with
“smart tags” that
are read by handheld
scanners for
supply-chain management.

In
recent years, rfid
technology has been
expanding within public
and private firms as a
method for verifying and
tracking people as well.
We first became aware of
this trend a while back
when a chief of
police—Jack Schmidig
of Bergen County, New
Jersey, a member of the
police force for more
than thirty
years—received a
VeriChip (rfid
chip) implant as part of
Applied Digital
Solution’s strategy of
enlisting key regional
leaders to accelerate
adoption of its product.

Kevin
H. McLaughlin (chief
executive officer of
VeriChip Corp. at the
time) said of the event
that “high-profile
regional leaders are
accepting the VeriChip,
representing an
excellent example of our
approach to gaining
adoption of the
technology” (note that
VeriChip Corp. was
renamed to PositiveID
Corp. on November 10,
2009, through the merger
of VeriChip Corp. and
Steel Vault Corp.).
Through a new and
aggressive
indoctrination program
called “Thought and
Opinion Leaders to Play
Key Role in Adoption of
VeriChip,” the company
set out to create
exponential adoption of
its FDA-cleared,
human-implantable rfid
tag. According to
information released by
the company, the
implantable transceiver
“sends and receives
data and can be
continuously tracked by GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) technology.” The
transceiver’s power
supply and actuation
system are unlike
anything ever created.
When implanted within a
body, the device is
powered
electromechanically
through the movement of
muscles and can be
activated either by the
“wearer” or by the
monitoring facility. In
the wake of the
terrorist attacks in New
York City and
Washington, DC, an
information technology
report highlighted the
company’s additional
plans to study
implantable chips as a
method of tracking
terrorists. “We’ve
changed our thinking
since September 11
[2001],” a company
spokesman said. “Now
there’s more of a need
to monitor evil
activities” (“Will
You Grin for the rifd
Mark of the Beast?” Before
It’s News, October
26, 2010, http://beforeitsnews.com/).
As a result, PositiveID
has been offering the
company’s current
incarnation of
implantable rfid
as “a tamper-proof
means of identification
for enhanced e-business
security¼tracking,
locating lost or missing
individuals, tracking
the location of valuable
property [this includes
humans], and monitoring
the medical conditions
of at-risk patients.”
While PositiveID offers
testimony that
safeguards have been
implemented to ensure
privacy in connection
with its implantable
microchips, some believe
privacy is the last
thing internal radio
transmitters will
protect—that, in fact,
the plan to microchip
humanity smacks of the
biblical Mark of the
Beast. Has an end-times
spirit indeed been
pushing for adoption of
this technology this
generation?

Consider
the following:

According to some
Bible scholars, a
biblical generation
is forty years. This
is interesting,
given what we
documented in our
book, Zenith
2016: Did Something
Begin in the Year
2012 that Will Reach
Its Apex in 2016?,
concerning the
Jewish Calendar year
5773 (2012—2013),
from which, counting
backward forty
years, one arrives
at the year 1973,
the very year Senior
Scholastics
began introducing
school kids to the
idea of buying and
selling in the
future using numbers
inserted in their
foreheads. In the
September 20, 1973,
feature “Who Is
Watching You?” the
secular high school
journal speculated:

All
buying and
selling in the
program will
be done by
computer. No
currency, no
change, no
checks. In the
program,
people would
receive a
number that
had been
assigned them
tattooed in
their wrist or
forehead. The
number is put
on by laser
beam and
cannot be
felt. The
number in the
body is not
seen with the
naked eye and
is as
permanent as
your
fingerprints.
All items of
consumer goods
will be marked
with a
computer mark.
The computer
outlet in the
store which
picks up the
number on the
items at the
checkstand
will also pick
up the number
in the
person’s
body and
automatically
total the
price and
deduct the
amount from
the person’s
“Special
Drawing
Rights”
account.

The
following year, the
1974 article, “The
Specter of
Eugenics,” had
Charles Frankel
documenting Nobel
Prize-winner Linus
Pauling’s
suggestions that a
mark be tattooed on
the foot or forehead
of every young
person. Pauling
envisioned a mark
denoting genotype.

In
1980, US News and World Report revealed that the federal government was
plotting “National
Identity Cards”
without which no one
could work or
conduct business.

The
Denver Post Sun followed up in 1981, claiming that chip implants
would replace the
identification
cards. The June 21,
1981, story read in
part, “The chip is
placed in a needle
which is affixed to
a simple syringe
containing an
anti-bacterial
solution. The needle
is capped and ready
to forever identify
something—or
somebody” (“Will
You Grin for the
RFID Mark of the
Beast?”).

The
May 7, 1996, Chicago
Tribune
questioned the
technology,
wondering aloud if
we would be able to
trust “Big Brother
under our skin?”

Then,
in 1997,
applications for
patents of
subcutaneous implant
devices for “a
person or an
animal” were
filed.

In
August 1998, the BBC
covered the
first-known human
microchip
implantation.

Millions
of Today
Show viewers
then watched in 2002
when an American
family got “chipped”
with Applied Digital
Solution’s
VeriChip live from a
doctor’s office in
Boca Raton, Florida.

Getting
"Chipped"
on the Today Show

In
November of the same
year,
IBM’s
patent application
for “identification and tracking of persons using rfid-tagged items” was recorded.

Three
years later, former
secretary of the
Health and Human Services
department, Tommy
Thompson, forged a
lucrative
partnership with
VeriChip Corp.
and began
encouraging
Americans “to get
chipped” so that
their medical
records would be
“inside them” in
case of emergencies.

The
state of
Wisconsin—where
Thompson was
governor before
coming to
Washington—promptly
drew a line in the
sand, passing a law
prohibiting
employers from
mandating that their
employees get
“chipped.” Other
states since have
passed or are
considering similar
legislation.
Despite this, in the
last decade, an
expanding number of
companies and
government agencies
has started
requiring the use of
rfid
for people
identification.
Unity Infraprojects,
for example, one of
the largest civil
contractors in
India, tracks its
employees with rfid,
as does the US
Department of
Homeland Security
for workers involved
in baggage handling
at airports.

Since
September 11, 2001,
the US government
has proposed several
versions of a
national
ID
card that would use rfid
technology.

Since
2007, the US
government began
requiring all
passports to include
rfid
chips that enable
use of biometric
features such as
facial recognition.

Hundreds
of Alzheimer’s
patients have been
injected with
implantable versions
of rfid
tags in recent
years.

Rfid
bracelets are now
being placed on
newborns at a
growing list of
hospitals.

Students
are being required
in some schools and
universities to use
biometric
ID
employing rfid
for electronic
monitoring.

Thousands
of celebrities and
government officials
around the world
have had rfid
radio chips
implanted in them so
that they can be
identified—either
for entry at secure
sites or for
identification if
they are kidnapped
or killed.

Others,
like Professor Kevin
Warwick (a British
scientist and
professor of
cybernetics at the
University of
Reading in the
United Kingdom),
have been
microchipped for
purposes of
controlling keypads
and external devices
with the wave of a
hand.

Besides
providing internal
storage for
individual-specific
information like
health records,
banking and industry
envisions a cashless
society in the near
future where all
buying and selling
could transpire
using a version of
the subdermal chips
and wireless
authentication. As
mentioned above, in
1973, Senior
Scholastics
magazine introduced
school-age children
to the concept of
buying and selling
using numbers
inserted in their
foreheads. More
recently, Time
magazine, in its
feature story,
“The Big Bank
Theory and What It
Says about the
Future of Money,”
recognized that this
type of banking and
currency exchange
would not require a
laser tattoo.
Rather, the writer
said, “Your
daughter can store
the money any way
she wants—on her
laptop, on a debit
card, even (in the
not-too-distant
future) on a chip
implanted under her
skin” (Joshua
Ramo, “The Big
Bank Theory,” Time,
April 27, 1998).

In
2007, PositiveID,
which owns the Food
and Drug
Administration-approved
VeriChip that
electronically
transmits
patients’ health
information whenever
a scanner is passed
over the body,
ominously launched
“Xmark” as its
corporate identity
for implantable
healthcare products.

Skip
forward to the
present, and
suddenly the push
for a national
biometric
identification
system and rfid
technology is all
over the news and
within industry
trade reports. The Next
Generation Biometric
Market—Global
Forecast &
Analysis 2012–2017
noted that the
global biometric
identification
market was surging
toward the nearly
$14 billion mark by
2017, with an
estimated compound
annual growth rate
of 18.7 percent.

In
February 2013, a
report for the
Competitive
Enterprise Institute
authored by David
Bier (“The
New National
Identification
System Is Coming”)
documented how US
lawmakers including
Senator John McCain
and Senator Lindsay
Graham were
advocating for a
“super”
identification
system that would
include biometrics.

Three
months later, in
May, the
Massachusetts-based
engineering firm
MC10 disclosed that
it is developing a
high-tech, biostamp,
electronic
“tattoo” that
will replace all
passwords. It is
made of silicon and
is sealed on the
wearer’s body. As
this book heads to
the editor, MC10
hopes to have its
first prototypes
“affixed” to
humans with the next
few months.

Executives
At MC10 With DARPA
Representatives
Rolling Out High
Tech Tattoos As
Tomorrow's ID

Simultaneously,
Motorola Senior Vice
President Regina
Dugan announced that
a project similar to
MC10’s is now
under development at
the multinational
telecommunications
company. Called
“The Proteus
Digital Pill,” the
project contains a
computer chip and
transmits an 18-bit,
ECG-like signal that
can communicate with
mobile devices as
well as serve as a
biometric ID. The
ingestible
“pill” has
already been
approved for human
use and tracking by
the FDA in the
United States as
well as in Europe.
Note that
“Proteus” is a
shape-shifter and
primordial pagan god
of ancient sages
(seers) that can
affect the
“conscious” andis capable of mutating the
host.

No
sooner had Motorola
announced its plan
for the
“Proteus”
swallowable marker
than some in the
secular media
marched forward to
brand any concerned
or resistant
religious types
(such as the authors
of this book) as
inflexible shrills
who do not represent
true Christianity.
As an example, Iain
Thomson of The
Register wrote
on May 31, 2013:

One
marketing problem
Motorola may not
have anticipated is
the reaction of
biblical literalists
to
its…authentication
systems.

A surprising
number of people in
the US still adhere
to an apparent
literal translation
of the current
version of…the
finale of the New
Testament: The Book
of Revelation—or,
for you believers of
the Catholic
persuasion, The
Apocalypse.

The text,
thought to be
written about 60
years after the
biblical death of
Christ, is regarded
as either a
description of the
end times of
humanity, a
satirical pastiche
on the increasingly
subverted tenets of
Christian
bureaucracy, or a
really bad mushroom
trip on a Greek
island. Nevertheless
it contains the
following warning:

“And
he causeth all, both
small and great,
rich and poor, free
and bond, to receive
a mark in their
right hand, or in
their foreheads: And
that no man might
buy or sell, save he
that had the mark,
or the name of the
beast, or the number
of his name.”

Be
reassured that the
majority of people
of faith in the US
and elsewhere
aren’t quite so
inflexible. Those
that aren’t may be
shrill, particularly
in the US, but do
not form a
representative
sample of
Christianity.

In
January, 2013,
Robert A. Pastor,
professor of
international
relations at
American University,
argued before the US
Congress that the
majority of
Americans are now
ready for—and
need—a national ID
based on head and
hand biometrics. A
centerpiece of the
immigration bill
imagines just such a
scenario and would
require all citizens
to have a biometric
card, without which
no one would be
approved for
employment
(effectively
rendering him or her
as a
“non-person.”)

By
June, 2013, the
Congress of the
United States pushed
forward on related
mandates, demanding
progress on advanced
biometric smart
cards for federal
identification under
the Homeland
Security
Presidential
Directive (HSPD-12).
The DHS wants these
personal
verification IDs
immediately and for
its employees to
carry digitalized
finger (and/or palm)
and facial
recognition images
(head and hand) to
serve as the
trendsetter for all
levels of government
and private industry
identification.
These cards will
employ barcodes, rfid
tags, and onboard
data processors that
can transmit
information and
location to remote
sites.

Later
the same month, the
use of biometrics
(hand and/or
head-iris scanning)
as a payment option
for goods and
services was
documented as the
method of choice for
buying and selling
among 50 percent of
consumers, with that
percentage trending
upward (see
Revelation 13:17).

One
month later, in
July, a special
report conducted by
Natural Security (a
UK-based authority
in
user-authentication)
described nine
hundred consumers
who had participated
in a pilot program
in which they used
fingerprint-based
technology when
purchasing products
and services. Of
that number, 94
percent of them were
excited about the
scheme, agreeing
they are now ready
to use biometrics
and rfid
technology for all
buying and selling.

By
August of 2013, a
new report from the
National Institute
of Standards and
Technology confirmed
the long-term
viability of iris
recognition as
stable for biometric
identification and
that no
distinguishing
texture or
degradation of the
iris occurs for at
least ten years, if
not decades.

A
whole host of
personal products
began flooding the
market at the same
time, including
jewelry, headgear,
and glasses that
boast GPS and rfid
tracking
capabilities, with
promises of future
payment integration
for buying and
selling via
biometric
signatures. One
example is the new
“Nymi Bracelet”
that is worn around
the wrist. It
monitors the
heartbeat as a
biometric signature,
claims to be more
accurate than facial
recognition, and is
said to be about as
accurate as
fingerprint
scanning.

Also
at the time Beast
Tech
was heading to the
printer, nineteen US
states have complied
with the “Real
ID
Act,”
an act of
Congress that
modifies US federal
laws pertaining to
authentication
standards for
driver’s licenses
and identification
cards with the goal
of codifying a
national—then
international—biometric
ID
system.

Concurrently
making its way
through Congress as
part of an
immigration reform
bill is a provision
to mandate universal
biometric
identification in
the form of a
national ID, without
which nobody will be
federally approved
for employment (or,
as it says in the
book of Revelation
13:17, “that
no man might buy or
sell, save he
that had the
mark…”). It is
called
“E-Verify” and
incredibly not only
has bipartisan
support among
lawmakers but
enthusiastic
approval from
notable Christian
leaders (funded by
George Soros, no
less).

A
version of
E-Verify to be the
law of the land...

Christian
leaders that are
lining up to support
the national ID
system include:

ØDr.
Carl Ruby, Vice
President for Student
Life, Cedarville
University

ØGabriel
Salguero, President,
National Latino
Evangelical Coalition

ØMat
Staver, Founder and
Chairman, Liberty
Counsel

ØJim
Wallis, President and
CEO, Sojourners

ØThe
Catholic Church, which,
in September 2013,
announced a massive,
coordinated effort to
get the immigration
reform bill passed by
targeting sixty Catholic
House Republicans and
one hundred and thirty
members of the House who
are also Catholic

ØIn
chorus, other
evangelical pastors
nationwide broadcast
radio ads in fifty-six
congressional districts
in fourteen states at a
cost of $400,000 in
support of the plan.

The list above continues
to exponentially
increase, causing a
growing number to wonder
if a national ID system
including rfid
adoption will, for all
practical purposes,
result in every man,
woman, boy, and girl in
the developed world
having an ID chip inside
him or her (like animals
worldwide already do)
sometime soon. Makers of
implantable microchips
like to state that the
process is voluntary,
but a report by Elaine
M. Ramish for the
Franklin Pierce Law
Center says:

A
[mandatory] national
identification system
via microchip implants
could be achieved in
two stages: Upon
introduction as a
voluntary system, the
microchip implantation
will appear to be
palatable. After there
is a familiarity with
the procedure and a
knowledge of its
benefits, implantation
would be mandatory.

George
Getz, the communications
director for the
Libertarian Party at the
time, agreed, saying:

After
all, the government
has never forced
anyone to have a
[driver’s] license,
[but] try getting
along without one,
when everyone from
your local banker to
the car rental man to
the hotel operator to
the grocery store
requires one in order
for you to take
advantage of their
services, that amounts
to a de facto mandate.
If the government can
force you to surrender
your fingerprints to
get a driver’s
license, why can’t
it force you to get a
computer chip implant?

Students of eschatology
(the study of end-times
events) find it
increasingly difficult
to dismiss how this all
looks and feels like
movement toward
fulfilling Revelation
13:16–17: “And he
causeth all, both small
and great, rich and
poor, free and bond, to
receive a mark in their
right hand, or in their
foreheads: And that no
man might buy or sell,
save he that had the
mark, or the name of the
beast, or the number of
his name.”

As newer versions of rfid-like
transmitters become even
more sophisticated—adding
other “prophetic”
components such as
merging human biological
matter with transistors
to create living,
implantable machines—the
authors of Beast
Tech
have
determined the
possibility that the
Mark of the Beast is set
to arrive through a
version of smart-chip
technology is beyond
doubt.

For those who may
question whether
investigators Tom Horn
and Terry Cook are
overstating these facts,
below are video clips to
watch
(with
trepidation),
especially the first one
with former Director of DARPA
(the US Defense Advanced
Research Projects
Agency) and current
executives at Google
discussing this very
technology (smart
tattoos and injestable
biochips) on national TV
as THE system that will
soon provide
authentication /
personal identification
for humans worldwide.

The mark IS coming, and we
all need to get educated
on the facts as soon as
possible in order to be
a source of information
to our loved ones, a
light in the darkness
while there is still
time.

Audience
applauds as Regina
E. Dugan -- former
Director of DARPA
and current
executive at
Google --
describes with
excitement the
coming BEAST TECH
smart tattoos and
ingestible
biochips that are
ALREADY FDA
APPROVED and that
people will want
to receive (and
then be REQUIRED
to receive) by
2017. She glows
about the
"super
powers" the
PROTEUS MARK
(Proteus was a
Shape-Shifter in
Greek Mythology)
will give her and
says today's
generation are
going to want them
too.
Unfortunately, she
is right.